War is the child of pride, and pride the daughter of riches.

—Jonathan Swift, 1697

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. War is hell.

—William Tecumseh Sherman, 1879

You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. 

—William Randolph Hearst, 1898

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

—Mao Zedong, 1938

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

—John Donne, 1622

I went [to war] because I couldn’t help it. I didn’t want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done.

—Louisa May Alcott, 1863

War to the castles; peace to the cottages.

—Nicolas Chamfort, 1790

Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

—Winston Churchill, 1939

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1773

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

—Seneca, c. 50

Sometime they’ll give a war and nobody will come.

—Carl Sandburg, 1936